A "Soyuzmultfilm" production Moscow 1946
Korney Chukovskiy's A PEACOCK'S TAIL
directors Leonid Amalrik, Vladimir Polkovnikov
composer Viktor Oranskiy art director Aleksandr Trusov
animators Nadezhda Privalova, Boris Titov, Lamis Bredis,
Lidiya Reztsova, Nikolay Fyodorov, Mihail Botov, Valentin Lalayants
backgrounds Galina Nevzorova, Irina Troyanova, Yelena Tannenberg
camera Nikolay Voinov, sound S. Renskiy montage A. Firsova
technical assistant I. Kulneva production director N. Tsofnas
voice artists Georgiy Vitsin, Leonid Pirogov, Yuliya Yulskaya, V. Blagoobrazov
Doctor Aybolit's Clinic
Why does the kitten have a tail?
Why does the calf have a tail?
And I - an orphan -
have no tail!
Have pity on me, have pity!
And glue a nice, long tail onto me!
Alright, my dear, I'm ready,
I've got all the tails you could want,
I will help you, you orphan:
I'll tie on four tails, if you want!
Ah...
Give me...
...the peacock's!
Gold, green, blue!
What do you want a peacock's for?
You had better take the goat's.
I do not want the tails of sheep and goats!
Hand me the peacock's!
Gold, green, blue!
So I can stroll through the woods,
ultra-fashionably dressed.
As I stroll like a peacock
Through the woods and the bogs,
All the animal folk will exclaim:
"Wow, who is that handsome lad there?"
And the bears, all the bears in the woods,
Once they see my beautiful self,
I am sure the poor fools will be sorry
That they don't themselves have such a tail!
There! Oh! Ooh! You! Oh! Ah! Oh! Eh! Ooh! Ah!
Oh, how fine you look, You float by like a peacock!
I had not recognized you, And mistook you for a peacock.
Oh, what beauty there is In a peacock's tail!
Look there! Look there!
What could that be?
In a swamp, it shines like gold!
Look! Look!
It must be a fire-bird!
The feathers on that bird are made of pure gold.
It would be best, my pal, if we could manage
to catch it as soon as we can.
Hunters caught our friend?
The knock-kneed bear got into trouble?
Alright, my dears, I'm going!
- Ah! - Oof!
Why'd you tie that poor lad up?
Could he be untied?
Give us a ransom!
As big as this!
Then, you can take him with you.
We will not let our stomper come to grief,
And, working together, we'll get our knock-kneed friend freed!
With chestnuts and with nuts our woods are filled,
And berries, and apples we also have in store!
To buy our stomper's ransom, we won't spare anything!
We'll give it all to the hunters for our friend!
Take, then, hunters, the gifts from the animals.
And release our stomper quickly!
My dear friend,
dressing up like a peacock
really doesn't suit a bear!
The End
Russian subs: 2014, bornik @ KG, Editor: Nataleksa,
English subs by Eus, May 2016 Revised by Niffiwan, Aug 2023